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Buses available to DCHS state championship
(Local News ~ 03/13/07)
Residents who would like to show support for the Dyer County High School Choctaw boys basketball team will have the opportunity to travel to Murfreesboro to see them in state championship play this week on chartered buses offered by the county's chief executive...
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Great American Cleanup set for April 28 across county
(Local News ~ 03/13/07)
The 2007 Great American Cleanup in Dyer County will officially kick off its anti-litter campaign at 11 a.m. April 5 at the Dyersburg Municipal Building. Howard Cobbs, the Keep Tennessee Beautiful community-development director, and Stine Cooperwood, a KTnB project assistant, will be the guest speakers...
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Brushfires reported in Miston area, near Tigrett
(Local News ~ 03/13/07)
Grass fires continue to ignite across Dyer County, with blazes reported on Monday in Tigrett and Miston. Woods in the swampland off Spence Spur Road near Miston caught on fire at about 6:30 p.m. Monday night. Dyer County Fire Chief James Medling said Bogota volunteers extinguished the blaze and limited the fire to an acre of trees and underbrush...
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Byars midstate hearing delayed
(Local News ~ 03/13/07)
NASHVILLE -- Accused rapist Timothy Byars's court appearance here on a sexual battery charge in General Sessions Court was delayed until June. "They didn't show up," said a frustrated Tommy Hindman of Knoxville, Byars's legal counsel. "It's been a waste of an entire day."...
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Attorneys spar during opening day in $10 million injury case
(Local News ~ 03/13/07)
Attorneys for a boy injured at Upon This Rock Amusement claimed in Circuit Court on Monday that the laser tag arena was a "dark and dangerous trap." In his opening statement to the jury, Covington attorney Jason G. Whitworth said 12-year-old Jonathan Reynolds was a victim of shoddy construction, protruding nail heads and too-steep ramps in the arena...
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Prospect takes land option in industrial park
(Local News ~ 03/13/07)
The Dyer County Commission was informed Monday night that an industrial prospect has taken an option on property in the Dyersburg Industrial Park. Code-named "Project Glaze," David Taylor told commissioners Dyersburg-Dyer County is one of two sites under consideration by the unnamed company, "and a decision should be made in the next 60 to 90 days."...
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